I'm definitely guilty of this at times: "We tend to grossly overestimate the pleasure brought forth by new experiences and underestimate the power of finding meaning in current ones." The quote is from this excellent piece: Travel Is No Cure for the Mind.

Cool interactive website: www.populationspast.org. Explore demographic and social change using maps of the UK between 1851-1911. How far we've come in the last 100 years or so!